Motivational Quotes

Humankind

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

- Doren, Carl Van

Best Quotes about Humankind

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Crowley, Aleister

People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Weil, Simone

10.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

11.

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Einstein, Albert

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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

15.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

17.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

18.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

19.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Smith, Adam

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

27.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Einstein, Albert

28.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

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There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Barry, Dave

32.

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

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The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Pope, Alexander

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

Reichmann, W.J.

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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Baumgardy, R. M.

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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Dahlberg, Edward

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

44.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

45.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Casals, Pablo

46.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man is an ape with possibilities.